A 12-year-old girl charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on a five-year-old boy found wandering in a wood with serious neck injuries will appear in court next Friday.

Police investigating the attack on Anthony Hinchliffe, which occurred in woodland in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday evening, have also charged the young girl with attempting to pervert the course of justice.

She will appear at Dewsbury Youth Court on June 10.

A spokeswoman for West Yorkshire Police said the girl had been placed in the care of a youth offending team.

Detectives are no longer looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.

Distraught Anthony was found by his 22-year-old cousin Tracey Jones in the wooded area near the Earlsheaton Medical Centre.

He was found wandering alone with ligature-type marks around his neck and bruises on his body, police said.

He was allegedly taken from his mother's back garden and led to a nearby wood where he was discovered injured.

During the investigation, five children all aged between 11 and 12 were arrested and questioned over the incident, which detectives initially treated as an attempted murder.

Anthony's mother, Terry Brown, 32, yesterday made a direct appeal to anyone who had any knowledge about the incident to contact detectives.

She said the past few days had been "very distressing" for both herself and her family.

Detectives had said they were still hunting up to three other people in connection with the attack but later said that was not now the case.